The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-03
PLEADING WITH A SAVAGE KING.
Efforts of the English to Stop the Ter
rible Angoni Raids.
From the Ne,o York Sun.

From the NelC York Sun.
Many years ago a large number of adj
venturesome Zulus left their own country
and Travelled hundreds of miles north until
they reached the region of Lake Nyassa.
There they settled and multiplied, some of
them making their homes among the high
lands west of the big lake, and others trav-
cling around the north end of the lake and
settling on the northeast side of it.
They still wear on their heads the
ring that denotes Zulu warrior,
and they speak the Zulu language in a
corrupted form. They are the best fighters
of the Nyassa region and have long been
the terror of all the other tribes living
around the lake. They travel with great
celebrity, and sometimes go hundred miles
or more on slave and cattle stealing raids.
Large regions have been almost wholly de-
populated by these terrible raids, and the
remnants of several once prosperous tribes
are now living on mountain tops elzing out
a most miserable existence, and never free
from the fear that their enemies will seek
them out, even in the Businesses to which
they have retreated.
Ever since Livingstone first visited the
Nyassa region we have heard of these ter
rible Arn0ni west of the lake. Every year
the mis- naries at BlanJyre south of Lake
Nyassa, have sent home reports of Angoni
raids in the fertile districts around them.
Several missionaries have visited them, and
two years ago Mr. Montagu Kerr, formerly
a Wall street broker, spent some time in
their chief town and wrote an entertaining
description of these remarkable people. 1t
has long been evident that unless their raids
were stopped the work of depopuiation
would 90 on until thousands of square
miles were swept clear of inhabitants.
The pitiful reports sent to England by the
missionaries induced the British govern
ment recently to send Mr. Halves, the Eng
lish Consul in the NyasSa territory, to the
King of the Angoni, to see if he could not
be persuaded to give up his terrible raids
The King was notified that the representa-
tive of a great Queen was coming to see
him. and he received Consul Halves with
much display of good will and with all the
honors he could render. He told Mr.. Halves
that he wished to live on good terms with
the English, and he said that as far as the
Angoni were concerned he would guarantee
the safety of all the missionary stations. He
was not quite so ready to promise to discon-
tinue his incursions among the tribes south
and east of the great lake, but after
many discussions of the matter he finally
promised that his warriors should not cross
the Shire river through which the waters
of Nyassa pour into the Zambesi. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether his promise is
worth anything. If he keeps his word,
very large district in one of the largest
parts of Africa that was once the home of
large and comparatively peaceful popula-
ton, will in future be spared the terrible
Angoni raids. 1t IS in this region that the
African Lakes Company has opened some
coffee plantations, and quite a number of
white men are there engaged in missionary
and commercial pursuits.
Mr.. Halves says that the Angoni yield the
most implicit obedience to the commands of
their King, and he was impressed by the
great consideration the King and all his
officers received from their people.